By the beginning of June this year, approximately 38 million tons of Sargassum drifted towards the coasts of the Caribbean ...

Just as experts thought Mexico’s sargassum season was over, the seaweed came back with a vengeance, covering beaches in ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a thick mass of leafy, floating seaweed stretching across 5,000 miles of ocean, is forecast to be a nuisance of record-breaking proportions this year. In May, ...

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Sargassum, a type of brown seaweed, originates in the Atlantic Ocean and provides crucial habitat for marine life. Experts predict a record year for sargassum, with massive amounts already observed in ...

Brian Lapointe, an algae bloom expert at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, is deep into his research on to to best dispose of large sargassum mats landing on Florida ...

(WSVN) - With summer just around the corner, it’s only a matter of time before seaweed washes up on shore and researchers are now developing a new tech tool to predict where it goes. Higher resolution ...

(NEXSTAR) – Massive clumps of smelly, toxic seaweed threaten to wash up on beaches across Florida and the Caribbean again this year. Last month, the bloom “increased so substantially that the ...

(NEXSTAR) – Blobs of seaweed amassing in the Atlantic Ocean grew to a collective 5.5 million tons last month, an increase over the record-breaking quantity reached in December. The vast majority of ...

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